What is a hero? If you save some people's life and you are killed, they will call you a hero. But would you say, Boromir was a hero? If you have a huge duty to carry and to fullfill and you fail, you won't be a hero. So could Frodo be a hero?
So what is a hero? A hero is a person, setting himself an aim to reach and to try it with all means neccessary and who never is lead into temptation and who never changes his mind. Well, let's only take a look at the central characters. Aragorn, he got into temptation at Amon Hen for a short moment, Merry looked into the Palantir, Pippin was frightened and wanted to go back home at Isengard, Gandalf was a Maiar, Sam had illusions and saw himself as the kind of Middle-Earth in Mordor, Arwen had almost sailed to Valinor, Legolas and Gimli were afraid of the One Ring, Frodo got his little Hobbit finger bit off because he couldn't destroy the ring, Gollum, well Gollum always only wanted to get his ring back and that's what happened in the end, but well, he died. And Sauron, Suron might be a candidate for the title of a hero, but he also failed and got his *** kicked. So I think you got a great amount of heroes in LOTR but no one HERO, if you know what I mean. They all got their qualities and it's great that way.
Only my opinion, Brishtog
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08-29-2003, 01:53 AM
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